Eliezer Isaac Schapira

Eliezer Isaac Schapira (Hebrew: אליעזר יצחק שׁפירא, romanized: Eliʻezer Yitsḥak Shapira; 6 November 1835 – March 1915) was a Jewish Polish writer, translator, and publisher.

Under the influence of his relative T. P. Schapira [he], he became a Hebrew teacher and a proponent of the Haskalah.

[2] In 1874, Schapira settled in Warsaw, where he opened the first publishing house for children's and young people's Hebrew literature.

[3] He would become the main publisher and distributor of the works of Judah Leib Gordon.

[4] He meanwhile contributed his own articles and translations to Ha-Maggid, Ha-Tsfira, Ha-Melitz, Ha-Yom, and Ha-Asif,[2] and for a time edited the periodical Ha-Boker Or [Wikidata].